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WASHINGTON (JTA)—A House-Senate conference committee, responding to
pressures by chairman J. W. Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and
by State Department officials, eliminated the Ribicoff amendment, which would have
condemned Soviet anti-Semitism, from the foreign aid authoriza-
tion bill.
The conference scrapped the Ribicoff measure, a rider to the
foreign aid bill, although 82 senators had either voted for it on the
floor or • subsequently recorded their support. Only one senator
Fulbright, had voted against it. A vague substitute, offered by Ful-
bright to block the specific action designed to alleviate anti-Jewish
pressures in the USSR, was inserted in the conference report. Ful-
bright had opposed specific pro-Jewish action, stating that "I do not
know why we should be so exclusive as to restrict the condemnation
only to the persecution of the Jews." The substitute language inserted
was merely a. general condemnation of "the persecution of any
Fulbright person's because of their religion" anywhere in the world.
The State Department opposed the Ribicoff measure on grounds that it might
Offend the Kremlin and do the! Russian Jews more harm than good.
Ribicoff originally offereld the proposed legislative move as a resolution. But it
was bottled up in the Foreign Relations Committee because the chairman, Fulbright,
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sought to block the measure from reaching the Senate floor. To get. around this, Ribi-
coff submitted the same wording in the form of an amendment to the foreign aid bill
on Sept. 24. During the debate, Ribicoff charged that Fulbright sought to "completely
undercut the original resolution and take the Soviet Union 'off the hook.'"
In confidential briefings, State Department officials have charged that the
Jewish situation in the Soviet Union has been exaggerated by Jewish leaders and
organizations in an alleged quest of sensational publicity for themselves and their
groups.
Three senators joined on the Senate floor, shortly before adjournment, to
deplore the elimination of the Ribicoff amendment by the Senate-House conference.
Fulbright was questioned by Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican., Ful-
bright said a provision favoring the Russian Jewish community was .considered by the
House of Representatives as "inappropriate in this bill."
Javits replied that, if the House had been provided an opportunity to vote the
amendment, it would have been decisively adopted. He said the action of the confer-
ence committee, in which Fulbright influenced the decision on the scrapping of the
Ribicoff amendment, was "shameful and unfortunate,"
Agreement with Javits was voiced by Senators Wayne Morse, Oregon Democrat,
and Milward Simpson, Wyoming Republican.
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American Aid Misused by Egypt,
Congressmen Warn State Dept.
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Greater Aliyah, Hebrew
Education Efforts Given
ZOA Convention Priority
By
Special Correspondent of The Jewish News
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WASHINGTON—The 67th annual convention
of the Zionist Organization of America, which con-
eluded its four days of sessions, held at the Wil-
lard Hotel on Sunday afternoon, took steps to
advance Hebrew education in this country, to
encourage aliyah to Israel among the youth and
to, establish a foundation fund that should guaran-
tee the numerous functions of the movement in
Israel and in the United States.
By unanimous action, the convention called
upon the U.S. Government ."to implement the
declared policy (of friendship for Israel) by taking
appropriate measures without delay—calculated
to halt the preparation for aggression—to deter
would-be aggressors from launching a war of ag-
gression against • Israel, and to use its influence
to promote direct negotiations of peace between
Israel and the Arab states."
AMong the major decisions of the convention
was the adoption of a resolution on aliyah—settle-
ment in Israel—declaring the diligent aim of the
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Fifteen members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee joined with
Rep. Leonard Farbstein, the sole committee member of Jewish faith, in a letter to Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, asking that American aid to Egypt not be misused in ways endangering peace.
The .16 congressmen cited the recent vote of 117 to 113 by the House of an amendment to the
Food for Peace bill, designed to voice the sense of Congress against further ,aid to aggressors. This
amendment was a substitute for a mandatory measure proposed by Re ► . Oliver Bolton, Ohio
Republican, which would have made mandatory the sev erance of any further aid to the Nasser regime.
The Congressmen told Rusk that many members opposed the unconditional cut-off of aid as
envisaged in the Bolton amendment, but nevertheless felt Nasser has become an unchallenged threat
to the peace. Accordingly, the 16 foreign affairs committeemen asked that U.S. aid be carefully '
dispensed to prevent an arms imbalance and activities undermining peace. They said that Nasser's use
of aid negated the aims of the assistance program.
Rusk was reminded of Nasser's continuing aggression in Yemen, his purchase of new:
munitions from the Soviet Union, formation of a new United Arab Military Command against Israel,
hiring of Nazi scientists and military technicians from Germany to prepare weapons against Israel,
pressure for liquidation of U.S. bases in the region, and opposition to American policies in the Congo,
Viet Nam, Cyprus and elsewhere: It was pointed out that both the Republican and the Democratic
parties, as expressed in the recently adopted platforms, stressed the need to guard against an arms
William B. Broomfield of Michigan was one of the imbalance and aggression in the Near East. Rep.
Congressmen who co-signed the warning sent to Secretary of State Rusk. -
Arabs Set Up Bar on Flow of Jordan Waters to Israel
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LONDON—Work was started Monday on a dam on the Yarmuk River, a tributary in Jordan of the Jordan
River, as the first stage in an Arab program to bar the river waters to Israel, it 'was reported here Tuesday from .
Amman. The work on the projected Mokheiba Dam was launched in a ceremony near Al Adasiah, about 80 miles
north of Amman. Ali Nassough Taher, vice' chairman of the Jordanian Development Board, declared during the cere-
mony that the plan to build the dam was aimed primarily at saving the land which would be affected by Israel's
"usurpation of the largest part of the Jordan's river water and diverting it out of the river's basin." Israel has de-
veloped a huge irrigation pipeline project which draws on the Jordan River through Lake Tiberias. The Yarmuk
river dam, a $28,700,000 project, is to be the first stage of a Jordan River diversion program approved at an Arab
"summit conference" last] month in Alexandria.
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ffillel Foundation Shares' Facilitio of Projected
Wayne State University Religious Center
Architect's Sketch of Wayne State University Religious Center Building
Hillel Foundation will be part of the projected Wayne State University
Religious Center Building, it was announced this week by Dr. Max Kapustin,
director of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at WSU, and Milton Weinstein,
president of Bnai Brith's Hillel committee at WSU.
Welcoming the opportunities that thus will 'be offered for expanded
Jewish religious programs for WSU students, the plan was warmly acclaimed in
statements issued by Rabbis Leizer Levin, Morris Adler and Richard C. Hertz,
speaking for the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jewish communities in
Detroit.
The announcement of plans for the religious partnership in the new
building pointed out that the Religious Center Building will be a separate but an
integral part of the University Center Building. This new building is being built
on Second Boulevard, on the new mall opposite the University library between
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